Category Homelab

unRAID on Dell PowerEdge R520

Yes, it works. It’s not only possible, but also easy. After reading many blogs that advertised the famous “flashing the H310 card to IT mode”, I was able to install and run unRAID on my R520 just by using the… Continue Reading →

Dell T320 upgrade PERC to H710

Like many of home lab owners out there, I have some servers and I like to make the most out of them. One of the upgrades I made to my Dell T320 was the RAID card. While H310 is not… Continue Reading →

Dell R320 review and noise levels

I have a Dell T320 tower server and I love it. It does storage related roles: VEEAM backup, file server, PLEX server and it’s ready for more. The CPU is a modest Xeon E5 2403 quad core, but it’s enough… Continue Reading →

RAID 10 vs RAID 5 with four hard drives

I wanted to set up a RAID array in my server, a Dell T320 with PERC H310 and four Seagate Constellation ES.2 SAS drives 7200 rpm 3 TB. So, like many of IT guys out there, I started googling. I… Continue Reading →

A great server for a home lab: Dell T320

The newest addition to my home lab is a Dell PowerEdge T320. A great server from Dell’s 12-th generation. It has a 6 core / 12 threads Xeon E5 2320 CPU, 48 GB of RAM and 4 x 3 TB… Continue Reading →

HP DL360 Gen 7 review

These are my impressions after using this server for a couple of months. I wouldn’t call it a review, since it will not be focused on numbers, megahertz and benchmarks, but on my first hand experience with this server in… Continue Reading →

Best servers for a home lab

If you are like me, you are a passionate IT guy with a home lab and some servers in it. I prefer buying used enterprise servers. They are reliable even after years of use and allow you to test things… Continue Reading →

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